Mathias Larsen

New op-ed out in LSE Business Review @LSEforBusiness

Great to see our data used by the @IEA in their new World Energy Outlook. The outlook uses our data to show the massive increase in Chinese outward investments in clean tech manufacturing.

Pleased to have my research featured in @nytimes reporting on China's role in a global green transition nytimes.com/2025/11/10/clima…

New paper out with @James7jackson in the working paper series of @GRI_LSE: 'Revisiting central bank independence for the climate era: insights from the People’s Bank of China' lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/…

New article out in @LSEforBusiness:

New article out in Ecological Economics with @jhasselbalch: 'Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth' sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

I’m excited to have started a job at the LSE @LSEnews as a Senior Policy Fellow, leading the China work at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment @GRI_LSE

New op-ed out in @CarnegieEndow china-blog, edited by @michaelxpettis: “How China’s Growth Model Determines Its Climate Performance: Rather than climate ambitions, compatibility with investment and exports is why China supports both green and high-emission technologies.”

New policy report just published with groundbreaking data showing that China's new global role in the green transition is investing in manufacturing, not financing infrastructure: "China’s Green Leap Outward" netzeropolicylab.com/china-g…

New article with @James7jackson out in Competition & Change: The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

New op-ed out in The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC : 'China’s Political System Makes Consumption-led Growth Impossible: Beijing’s prioritization of political security necessitates a reliance on investment and exports – not consumption – to power the economy.' thediplomat.com/2025/08/chin…

New article out in World Development @WorldDevJournal: 'Green industrial policy under financial constraints: Insights from India’s state-led decarbonization' sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

NEW ARTICLE out in Review of International Political Economy @RIPEJournal: The archetype of a ‘big green state’? What China tells us about green macrofinancial regimes doi.org/10.1080/09692290.202…

In my latest op-ed just out in @Enviro_Finance, Calvin Quek @clearroads and I asses what policy tools are most central in how China finances green industries. Taxonomies, disclosure, and green bonds get most attention but these are not that impactful. environmental-finance.com/co…

New article out in Socio-Economic Review @SASE_Meeting: 'The pullback of Chinese overseas financing and its implications for a post-neoliberal global financial order.' doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf030

New article out in New Political Economy! My co-author, @James7jackson, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

I'll be in Beijing all of May and June as a visiting scholar at Peking University's Carbon Neutrality Institute. Let me know if you're in town or if you know someone I should meet.

NEW ARTICLE out in Capital & Class revisiting the debate on whether China is capitalist or socialist: ‘Reconsidering the ‘China model’ through structure and agency: The hybrid realities of Chinese capitalism and ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

I'll be in Shanghai the next two weeks to cath up on the latest developments in green finance in China. Let me know if there's anyone I should meet!

Happy to have a policy brief published by @CSIS as part of this report on ‘Managing U.S.-China Tensions over the Global Economic Order.’ I argue that there is space for cooperation in developing green infrastructure in the global South. csis.org/analysis/managing-u…